Hah.. --purge :)
Thanks for the tip. I can understand that a carefully crafted configuration file is something that you don't want to lose, but there have been a lot of packages that I just wanted to download and try out and then removed a few minutes later. ;) I wish that Debian used /usr/local more, but I guess its a case of where do you draw the line when deciding if something should be in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. For me, I generally reserve local for stuff that I install by hand to keep things somewhat sane. FreeBSD uses the local directory a lot though.....all a matter of taste really. Thanks for the tip though, I guess if I read through the man files again I might have picked that up, but I've found that I haven't had to use the advanced features of apt much, and really...I prefer tarballs anyways for some masochistic reason. :) -z- On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, John R Lenton wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:44:24AM -0400, User zos wrote: > > I'm sorry...its been a super crazy night (and I mean ULTRA) and this has > > been bothering me for a while. Is there a specific benefit to not deleting > > this stuff after I have decided that I no longer want something installed > > on my box? > > you might need the configuration later on. I know realizing just > after you've purged a package that you should've kept the config > files for next time you need the package isn't very nice. > > use --purge. > > -- > John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: > - Cosa dice una scimmia con la diarrea? > - Macaco addosso. > -- Da it.hobby.umorismo >
